Athena, for what it's worth, I just saw your darling Elijah with a shaved head here.

Honestly, honey - it don't look nice on the kid. Mrf.

Scouted on the LJs earlier on today and dropped on by at Talathia's. *blinks* I just found out that she's pagan.

I also found out that she's pretty scared and that she feels a little alone out there. Said several people started 'going away' from her when they found out that little tidbit. Made them scared. And she's scared as well.

...

Well that kinda ruins my mood. Not Talathia. I like her. I wish I could talk to her and help her out.

But rather the fact that I've been seeing similar reactions and they're all bad in my book considering that Harle did a speech defending Wicca (speech class requirement - she had to defend something) and all her classmates made snide comments here and there on the peer-grading sheets that showed just how much they didn't listen.

Ticks me the hell off since several of those comments were "I'm scared" and "I got scared".

What bull! Honestly! I had Harle read her speech to me! And it happened to be very insightful and detailed to the point of letting the audience know the facts and fiction with regards to one of the most 'bashed' religions out there.

Goddess. Makes me wonder why we even try - but then again, it's pretty useless talking to brick walls.

Had to go and tell Harle to just let them be. If people want to think so badly of Wicca, so be it. I'm gonna go ahead and let them try to figure out the meaning of 'Live and Let Live' on their own. Lessens a headache on my part. I'll practice that myself - live my life the way I want to... and let them live their lives in the little comfort box that in my opinion could make anyone claustrophobic.

I'm sorry guys. I hate enclosed spaces - enclosed groups that have to put others down just so that they can go on with their happy little lives. Happy, little shallow lives sometimes.

It frustrates the hell out of me to see so many people judge - before they know things. And then preach that they aren't discriminating that they practice tolerance.

Yeah. Suuuuuure. And I just jumped over the bloody moon.

This therefore leads me to the rant #3 on my list. --> 3. Another rant on Marie and Lars

Had a class last Monday - reporting as usual, since that's what Sir INTROSO (Introduction to Sociology) wants us to do to earn our grade.

Their topic just had to be Religion, didn't it?

Naturally, they tackled everything in context - and stressed on the background of the Catholic faith... which was fine. To give them due credit, it was well researched (read: give thanks to our textbook) and presented in proper order and detail.

What ticked me off then?

To quote Marie/Lars (I forget which): 'People tend to find fault in other religions.' Supposedly to prove which religion is right above all the others.

They then continued to say that 'no one religion is right for everyone' - mainly because people will always prefer one or the other based on where they grew up or were born or the culture in that particular society.

Applaud them, please. The wording is great - the message fabulous.

Now if only it didn't sound so hypocritical to me - considering that these were the same two people who came down pretty hard on my personal choice a couple of months back.

Quoting Lars: 'It's not even a real religion'.

Damn. You know, I really lost my head over that - got pretty mad, texted my Mom whatever it was the idiot said in class and practically went nutz. Thank the heavens for Harle, Kai and Maia, whom i met up with later that day.

Thank the heavens for Wednesdays. Which is possibly my most favorite day of the week.

But i digress...

Anyway, next thing I knew I really wanted to just walk out of their talk. My particular control amazes me still. *sighs* i stayed and sweated the whole thing out. like any decent person would. I still simmer when I think of it - but mostly i just shrug it off now.

They will continue to be as plastic as they are. And they won't see just how much of an Orocan they are. They refuse to see it, considering that they should always be in the right and never know how to compromise.

These are the people I will leave behind when I walk out the classroom door for the final time. And all I can say at this point is 'Thank YOU, God!'

*coughcough* Anyway, now, the music in my player is more on the senti side and removes the mood of the whole rant thing --> Stephen Speaks' Out of My League... so i think it's best that I end this here.

Finally signed up at Different Folk.

And I'm incredibly happy since I managed to download the mp3s of four of Comoon Rotation's sings. *glares at the computer* After a considerable amount of trying to figure out what buttons to push. Gr.

*winces* I swear, the more I spend time on this new bloggie the 'genkier' I get. Heaven forbid. This is a rant blog for cryin' out loud! Gah!

I need to find something new to be angsty about.

Fixed the linkage since it was due...

Got the links for the people from MDTAS.com up and ready. *huggles the people from MDTAS* Methinks I need to update meself, noh?

Gr.

This isn't a darkblog anymore... that's bad. I am due for ranting sometime soon.

Btw - issuing another challenge:

I need a new layout for the A ghra. A m'hain.. I'm thinking lots of cascading layers and such... Theme? --> Venus on a Moodswing.

*blinks* This is debatable though... since I wanna update my personal webbie and use this title for that place instead.

Gah! The life of Melina when she's hectic. Gr...

I want summer to start already - maybe then I'll have renewed brainmatter in my cranium. *grins toothily* Thanks for the new line Maia, Harle. Mwahahaha!!!

Something to remember...

I'm half-mad at the DLSU computer system because I can't sign up for fanlistings! Gr... Nevermind.

-->Different Folk<--

Something to do when I get time again. Gr.

I'm stewing give me a farden break.